…Doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. 
Lots going on behind the scenes here everyone! I heard that people were asking if I am OK – I can gladly say I am, and doing quite well, thank you very much! I’ve been immersed in doing some work for my friends Lee Dodd and David Adams from Escalate Media, a large network of community sites for women. I’m particularly fond of getting to work on helping them grow the TotallyHer women’s magazine site, the A Full Cup coupon community, and the well established DiaperSwappers moms forum, though they have 12 sites in their family network.
But in case you have been missing my Sparkplug CEO “prose”, you can find my latest writings sprinked around the web:
Women Online in 2009: 9 Trends to Watch in a Down Economy
2008 has given us all a shakeup. We have a fragile economy unlike anything we have seen in 80 years. And the online advertising and technology industry is in for a rough ride in 2009. But 2008 was also the Year of the Woman online. Over the last 18 months, the number of ad networks targeted towards moms and women exploded.
2009 is a make-it-or-break-it year for nearly every business in existence today. And as for women’s websites and communities, I think this industry is also in for a bit of a shakeup…
Really, Tell me How to Be a GeekMommy
Weigh in on my guest post at Lucretia’s GeekMommy blog on how you balance being a geek and a mom.
Marketing on the Cheap for the Mompreneur
Most moms who start businesses do so with a budget of next to nothing. While there’s nothing wrong with this (it’s actually how I started Sparkplugging), I’ve learned that it isn’t always the best foundation for a big, booming business. If you have visions of being acquired by some big company someday, I’d make the recommendation that you find a way to give yourself a healthy budget so that you can give your company what it needs to grow. But honestly, most moms aren’t even interested in that route – they just want a business that fits in with their busy child-centered lifestyle. If that’s you, then everything you do is all about spending as little as possible and making as much as possible as a work at home mom.
The Ten Lamest Gifts You Can Buy for a Woman
It may be after the holidays, but it is never too late to make sure you aren’t buying lame gifts for the woman in your life!
And I’ve written a few articles for a new writing gig with Monster.com’s WomenCo, a women’s career networking community:
5 Reasons Why Professional Conferences Are a Must
5 Ways to Have Many Eggs in Many Baskets
It’s Not a Glass Ceiling, It’s a Sticky Floor
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Sparkplugging Founder Wendy Piersall is dang passionate about helping people start & grow a business while maintaining life balance (somehow). 
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Yes, you have been busy! I’ve seen many of your posts all over the blogosphere. Thanks so much for guest posting at Living – In Theory. Still getting great feedback. I loved reading the Geek Mommy post. Very funny. I totally feel the etsy envy… haha.
Looking forward to a great 2009 and a fabulous TotallyHer experience!
I hope you a real good holiday season Wendy. Hopefully we can get things moving faster as this year progresses and the dust settles from that horrible ending of 2008!
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Hurrah for the woman power! I am glad to hear that you’re as active as ever–and you’re a mom as well (did I get this correct?). Women have inner strengths that seemed bottomless. I like the stuff you shared about starting a business with a healthy capital. Yes, it should have some funds to get support from so that progress will not get stunted. Thanks for sharing so many things in this blog.
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